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shipping company. When the second son was born in 1883, Nagai was sent to live with his maternal grandmother until 1886. During his childhood, he visited a Chinese language school, and, under his mother's influence, was taught singing and playing music instruments, showing a fondness for utazawa, a
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was also a turning point in Nagai's life: the death of his father, the divorce from both his first and second wife (the second marriage—to a geisha—led to the alienation of his mother), and the resigning from his position at Keio University and
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red-light district, accompanied by his friend and writer Seiichi Inoue (1878–1923). The same year, he graduated from
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plays, and dropped out of University. His writings were influenced by French
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During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade: Two Novellas by Nagai Kafu
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Due to illness, Nagai spent several months in 1895 in a hospital in
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Kafū the Scribbler. The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafū, 1879-1959
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In 1910, Nagai started teaching as a professor of literature at
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was a Japanese writer, editor and translator. His works like
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After a decade-long hiatus, he published the novellas
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J'Lit | Authors : Kafu Nagai | Books from Japan
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Scarecrow Press. pp. 279–280. 514: 444:A Strange Tale from East of the River 352:A Strange Tale from East of the River 152:A Strange Tale from East of the River 217:style of singing accompanied by the 772:Japanese dramatists and playwrights 275:play writing, appeared on stage in 259:. He became a disciple of novelist 24: 802:Recipients of the Order of Culture 142:, 3 December 1879 – 30 April 1959) 25: 828: 792:Academic staff of Keio University 691: 574: 372: 242:Tokyo School of Foreign Languages 723: 305:met with much critical acclaim. 777:20th-century Japanese novelists 767:People from the Empire of Japan 787:20th-century Japanese diarists 653:Seidensticker, Edward (1965). 178:Nagai was born Sōkichi Nagai ( 174:Nagai Kyūichirō, Kafū's father 13: 1: 817:Burials at Zōshigaya Cemetery 556:Henshall, Kenneth G. (2014). 454: 707:Works by or about Kafū Nagai 369:. He died on 30 April 1959. 361:In 1952, Nagai received the 165: 7: 722:(public domain audiobooks) 136: 10: 833: 322:. 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Index

Nagai Kafū
Kafū Nagai in 1947
Tokyo
Ichikawa
Junior High School
Naturalism
Aestheticism
Geisha in Rivalry
demimonde
Tokyo

Koishikawa
Bunkyō
Tokyo
Washizu Kidō
Home Ministry
Chinese poetry
Nippon Yusen
Edo era
shamisen
Odawara
Yoshiwara
Junior High School
Shanghai
Tokyo School of Foreign Languages

Hirotsu Ryūrō
Fukuchi Ōchi
rakugo
kabuki

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